The 2011 Dominions 3 Thread

Edirr · 2013-02-01T05:39:11.000Z

Okay, no need for me to involve myself then. I don’t know his email address and if I do have it somewhere, that would be at home and I’m at work now.

sharaleo · 2013-02-01T05:43:24.000Z

Thanks Edirr, appreciate the assistance!. I figure llamabeast will pick it up given he admins the joint.

What’s your handle over there, btw? I would have cc’d on the PM, but you did not come up on a member search.

Edirr · 2013-02-01T05:47:51.000Z

My name over there is Edi. It’s my preferred handle, but I can’t use it everywhere. Some places it’s already taken, many other places (like Qt3) do not allow such short user names, so I use this handle on such occasions. It also has the upside of almost never being taken anywhere.

sharaleo · 2013-02-01T05:51:31.000Z

Cool, suspected that may have been you.

Phobos · 2013-02-01T16:58:52.000Z

Austen:

I’m not in a particular need for a new game, but I would prob be up for another R/AND game if that’s appealing to folks.

I’m only scouting for a new game because one of the 2 I am involved in is drawing to a close.

If another game opens up in the next few weeks, I’ll be happy to jump in.

Maerlande · 2013-02-01T18:30:10.000Z

Bah too many RAND games. They are allright but I can’t brag and whine! Boring man!

Nate · 2013-02-02T12:44:27.000Z

Maerlande:

Bah too many RAND games. They are allright but I can’t brag and whine! Boring man!

Agreed. Is there a format where you can play rand style AND talk about it on the forum?

Phobos · 2013-02-02T15:42:01.000Z

RAND is random nation assignment, no diplomacy right?

Lyfdel · 2013-02-02T16:01:15.000Z

Nate:

Agreed. Is there a format where you can play rand style AND talk about it on the forum?

It would be neat to have a designated narrator or storyteller for RAND games. Players could send as much or as little information/propaganda to the narrator as they felt like. The narrator could talk about events while preserving player anonymity. Since no diplomacy is involved, time-delayed posts wouldn’t hurt. Actually, a time delay would also reduce the main drawback of having a narrator: influence on player actions.

Phobos: Yes, and anonymous as well.

pyrhic · 2013-02-02T16:11:02.000Z

Ya, funny you posted this as I just said the same thing in a PM. Even time delayed, I think the impact of a neutral party saying something like ‘Look who has a huge lead’ or ‘look who just got crushed by who’ is pretty large and probably damages the game more than enhances it.

Nate · 2013-02-02T16:22:23.000Z

Matt Bowyer and I toyed with the idea of running a narrated Dom3 game at one point. You send turns to one of us, we host it, examine the turns, charts and graphs and provide a sort of ongoing history/story following along with the game.

pyrhic · 2013-02-02T16:32:44.000Z

Ashdod - Newswire - Word is spreading from the capital that the new god of Ashdod has emerged. Apparently his name is Sam, and he’s currently unemployed with absolutely no magical talent and almost zero aspirations. Asked for his thoughts on his new nation of followers, he responded “Well, I’m just a guy for us all to, y’know, rally behind - I guess. I don’t really do much and they’ve just asked me to stay out of the way and maybe make sure the kids don’t get into much trouble while the adults are away.”

Asked for comment, Arthur Remorez, a ground weasel from the Interior Ministry of Surviving Long Enough to do Something, responded under a request to remain anonymous, that this was purposefully done in order to make Ashdod appear to be less threatening to its Neighbors. “Are you kidding me? We show up to the party with 2 or 3 major blesses, and we’re going to have tsuris in the tuches, if you know what I’m saying.”

When asked if it was true that one of the army’s plans was to place Sam naked at the Vanguard of the Army, holding a sign saying “Please Don’t Kill Us.”, Remorez said there was absolutely no truth to it whatsoever. Besides, he pointed out, the signs could not be made legible, and still man-portable, beyond about 13 feet.

gp1628 · 2013-02-02T17:56:47.000Z

You might try a variation of the “tourist” game.
We had a Dom3 game where each turn the game was zipped up. There was another copy of the game running where everyone had access to it for viewing. The clincher was that the tourist version was always 5 turns behind the game.

So maybe a narrator could be behind the game play to insure that the narration doesnt affect the play.

Maerlande · 2013-02-02T20:37:36.000Z

Well, it’s also anonymous. That’s the A

Maerlande · 2013-02-02T20:38:59.000Z

You can’t have a no diplo game and have folks comment on the game. Its too easy to hide diplo hints.

pyrhic · 2013-02-02T22:37:42.000Z

you Know, I’ve never reaLLy coNsidered thAT, but you’rE probably right. For what It’s woRth, i Seriously doubT anyone here would do that.

Kelan · 2013-02-03T03:49:57.000Z

pyrhic:

you Know, I’ve never reaLLy coNsidered thAT, but you’rE probably right. For what It’s woRth, i Seriously doubT anyone here would do that.

Haha! But, you gotta give us the nation! It already goes without saying to kill him first ;).

Kelan · 2013-02-03T03:56:50.000Z

I see The Tour is up on llamaserver. However, for Mods it says “Conceptual Balance Complete 1.41” with a link to the old mod? It looks like you may need to change that to 1.94 before we start sending pretenders in?

dfs · 2013-02-03T06:22:30.000Z

Kelan:

I see The Tour is up on llamaserver. However, for Mods it says “Conceptual Balance Complete 1.41” with a link to the old mod? It looks like you may need to change that to 1.94 before we start sending pretenders in?

Thank you very much.
Correction made.

Nate · 2013-02-03T18:37:01.000Z

Kelan:

Haha! But, you gotta give us the nation! It already goes without saying to kill him first ;).

I’m becoming the new Perkins…?